It is very hard submitting your art work to art galleries. It is difficult to get rejection after rejection and to still have the energy and will to keep creating your art work. I figure for every 25 submissions I make, I am lucky to receive one positive response.

When my first New York gallery took me on, I discovered an amazing fact. The art gallery received 4,000 slides a year! That’s right 4,000 slides!

I tell young artists that if they get even a personal response from an art gallery saying that they liked the artist’s work, that that is huge; and to definitely follow up on that contact when they are submitting their next round of slides.

If an artist gets asked by an gallery to show them his or her art work, but the artist doesn’t get accepted to be a part of the gallery…that is also huge, and to definitely follow up on that contact as well. These are encouraging signs.

It takes a great deal of courage to submit art work to art galleries. And if you are an artist who is in the process of doing that–good for you!